Proverbs 6:7

New Century Version

Ants have no commander, no leader or ruler,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Without leader, administrator, or ruler,

Hebrew Names Version
Which having no chief, Overseer, or ruler,

King James Version
Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,

English Standard Version
Without having any chief, officer, or ruler,

New English Translation
It has no commander, overseer, or ruler,

Amplified Bible
Which, having no chief, Overseer or ruler,

New American Standard Bible
Which, having no chief, Officer, or ruler,

World English Bible
Which having no chief, Overseer, or ruler,

Geneva Bible (1587)
For shee hauing no guide, gouernour, nor ruler,

Legacy Standard Bible
Which, having no chief,Officer or ruler,

Berean Standard Bible
Without a commander, without an overseer or ruler,

Contemporary English Version
Ants don't have leaders,

Complete Jewish Bible
It has no chief, overseer or ruler;

Darby Translation
which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,

Easy-to-Read Version
Ants have no ruler, no boss, and no leader.

George Lamsa Translation
Though having no harvest and no ruler over her, neither any one to guide her,

Good News Translation

Lexham English Bible
It has no chief, officer, or ruler.

Literal Translation
who, having no guide, overseer or ruler,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
She hath no gyde, no teacher, no leder:

American Standard Version
Which having no chief, Overseer, or ruler,

Bible in Basic English
Having no chief, overseer, or ruler,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,

King James Version (1611)
Which hauing no guide, ouerseer, or ruler,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
She hath no guyde, nor ouerseer, nor ruler,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For whereas he has no husbandry, nor any one to compel him, and is under no master,

English Revised Version
Which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Which whanne he hath no duyk, nethir comaundour, nether prince;

Update Bible Version
Which having no chief, Overseer, or ruler,

Webster's Bible Translation
Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,

New King James Version
Which, having no captain, Overseer or ruler,

New Living Translation
Though they have no prince or governor or ruler to make them work,

New Life Bible
She has no leader, head or ruler,

New Revised Standard
Without having any chief or officer or ruler,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Which, having no harvest, scribe, or ruler,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Which, although she hath no guide, nor master, nor captain,

Revised Standard Version
Without having any chief, officer or ruler,

Young's Literal Translation
Which hath not captain, overseer, and ruler,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Which, having no chief, Officer or ruler,

Contextual Overview

⁶ Go watch the ants, you lazy person. Watch what they do and be wise. ⁷ Ants have no commander, no leader or ruler, ⁸ but they store up food in the summer and gather their supplies at harvest. ⁹ How long will you lie there, you lazy person? When will you get up from sleeping? ¹⁰ You sleep a little; you take a nap. You fold your hands and lie down to rest. ¹¹ So you will be as poor as if you had been robbed; you will have as little as if you had been held up.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Job 38:39-41, Job 39:1-12, Job 39:26-30, Job 41:4-34

Reciprocal: Habakkuk 1:14 - no

Cross-References

Genesis 6:1
The number of people on earth began to grow, and daughters were born to them.

Genesis 6:2
When the sons of God saw that these girls were beautiful, they married any of them they chose.

Genesis 6:3
The Lord said, "My Spirit will not remain in human beings forever, because they are flesh. They will live only 120 years."

Genesis 6:4
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days and also later. That was when the sons of God had sexual relations with the daughters of human beings. These women gave birth to children, who became famous and were the mighty warriors of long ago.

Genesis 6:20
Two of every kind of bird, animal, and crawling thing will come to you to be kept alive.

Genesis 6:22
Noah did everything that God commanded him.

Psalms 37:20
But the wicked will die. The Lord 's enemies will be like the flowers of the fields; they will disappear like smoke.

Proverbs 10:27
Whoever respects the Lord will have a long life, but the life of an evil person will be cut short.

Proverbs 16:4
The Lord makes everything go as he pleases. He has even prepared a day of disaster for evil people.

Hosea 4:3
Because of this the land dries up, and all its people are dying. Even the wild animals and the birds of the air and the fish of the sea are dying.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler. None to guide and direct her what to do; nor any to overlook her, to see that she does aright, or to oblige her to work, and keep her to it; nor any to call her to an account, and correct her for doing amiss; and nevertheless diligent and industrious, doing everything of herself, by the instinct of nature, readily and willingly: and yet how slothful are men; who, besides the dictates of nature, reason, and conscience, have parents, masters, ministers, and magistrates, to guide, direct, exhort, instruct, and enforce! so Aristotle k says of the ant, that it is

αγαρχος, without any ruler or governor.

k Hist. de Animal. l. 1. c. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The words express the wonder with which the Hebrew observer looked on the phenomena of insect life. “Guide,” better captain, as in Joshua 10:24. The Septuagint introduces here a corresponding reference to the industry of the bee.